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I will never forget the moment I heard the Zimmerman verdict. Standing over the stove cooking dinner, my friend sent the text “Zimmerman was found not guilty.” Immediately, my heart dropped and I felt chills run through my body. There are no words that can properly convey the flush of emotion I felt as soon as I read the words “not guilty.”

This makes me wonder how the case was addressed in schools (especially predominantly Black schools), or if it even was addressed at all. Did teachers explain the facts of the case and let students discuss it and how they felt about what it means for them in this country? Did schools embrace a no-talking-about-it policy? I'm really curious now.

I was in high school (90% Black/Latino) when the OJ verdict came in, taking a quiz but because the whole country had been watching for a year and we knew it was coming in, those who had finished (like me) were allowed to listen to the radio. I was actually the one in class who told the verdict was Not Guilty. I watched my Black and Latino classmates celebrate, while the white teacher looked horrified and angry. We had discussed the case in some classes with Black teachers, and it was steadfastly ignored in favor of standard operating procedure in classes with white ones.

I'm really interested in tracking down some high schoolers and finding out whether they were even given the chance to speak their minds about it.

It was another racially polarized case; a lot of people in Black/Latino communities felt he was innocent, while many in white communities felt he was guilty. Although if you ask people, you might find more Black people were celebrating Johnny Cochran more than OJ. Because living in a society where you know Black people can get thrown under the jail for no reason whatsoever and it happens all the time, no one expected that OJ would ever get off regardless of if he was innocent or not. He was a Black man married to a white woman and there were plenty of white people who hated him on that reason alone. Then she ended up dead. We knew he was going to death row, but many felt he was set up.

I think that lots of Black people were cheering for Cochran's success in managing to get past all that and secure a not guilty; not so much that they were OJ fans.